The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

prints. the greater proportion of his pro
duction going into prints. The April
Nav and June butter is made into tubs
generally, but none of what is made IL
August, July and Septem Der is so mar
keted. The rest of the year customer
may get it in whatever shape they see ii
to order. Some of the private custo
mers think it keeps better in tubs. Al
high price as 90 cents a pound is OBJ
tained by Mr.. Hazen. The print butter
goes to its destination in twelve, twenty
and thirty-pound boxes, which art
returnable free of charge. In ad
dition to the cream from his own dairy
be buys the product of 300 cows. The
coming season he will negotiate for thai
of 100 additional cows. The cream Il
used separate from that of the home
herd, and the butter brings on an aver
age of cents pound less. The entire
skim and buttermilk goes TO the calves
and hogs on the farm, from quarts tt
II quarts per individual being fed
according to age. Mr.. Hazen expert
enced great trouble from his calves
securing, until he fed a mixture of
quart of fiaxseed and 6 quarts of water
boiled to jelly, tablespoonful being
given in each feed of milk. This
remedy has cured the scours. MIR. Hazen
thinks that farmers of New Hampshire
cannot afford not to feed oats cut in the
milk and dried. This season he run
short of this kind of feed, but another
year will have much larger crop
After the spring work is done he will
plow and SOW oats. Oats sown as late
as the first of July get into condition to
cut. Mr.. III. is a strong believer in oats
considering that feed better than hay
He feeds one-half oats and one half hay.
He will SOW 100 acres with oats this
year. He is also stanch advocate OF
ensilage. Never has he experienced bad
effects from its use on milk or butter.
1t is his custom to feed ensilage after
milking in the morning and two and
one-half hours before milking at night.
His silo holds ZOO tons, being IL tt.xl5
fixes fit. 1t contains 10 pits. The feed
is cut Z of an inch long. Stones are
used for weighing, although last year
he inaugurated the practice OF weight
ing with muck, using it for an absorbent
about the stable after being taken from
the silo. So well was he pleased with
the muck that he will continue its use.
Twenty-Five thousand pounds of muck
were required for each pit; this year he
will increase that amount to 10000 or
$4,000 pounds and have it stored for an
absorbent. Stone causes too much work,
In the barn ventilators run up through
the roof every 80 feet and the premises
are disinfected with lime and plaster.
Mr.. Hazen plants Whitman u BurrelHs
ensilage corn. He had 80 acres devoted
to this object last year and will plant 50
acres this year. The yield last fall was
679 tons. The northern and sweet corn
averages 10 tons and 348 pounds to the
acre. The ensilage corn averages 10
tons and 745 pounds per acre. At Mr..
Hazen's farm the expense of cutting is
greater than in some localities. Last
year the cost was 715 cents ton from
planting to the time it was covered In
the silo. The total cost, including the
price of corn, phosphates and all work,
was $1.06 1858 per ton, exclusive OF
any charge for the use of land. His
hay yield last season was 300 tons. he
did not raise roots last year but will
plant several acres of carrots this spring.
He like carrots for feed. If he had
plenty of carrots he says he would teed
a peck per COW once day.
MIR. Hazen has been engaged in butter
making two years, and his herd, aver
aging 7S cows, had made lS,90o pounds
of butter last year. In all during that
time he had made 54,749 pounds. The
average amount of butter per COW in
his herd was 242 lbs, 81 o., including
two heifers with first calf, which he
considered equal to one COW. The
present year he will make over $4,000
pounds of butter. In the summer all
his butter goes to the mountain hotels.
Mr.. Hazen tries all kinds of expert
ments in connection with his farming
operations. If anything comes before
the public that seems destined to
advance any branch of farming,
he gives it a trial, fair and Impair
tial, adopting it if successful. his
immense energy and untiring industry
are emphatically illustrated in the fast
that his farm, which comprises 1,4OO
acres, has all been brought from a will
derness within the last twelve years,
and the work of clearing and improving
still goes on with strong strides. This
year $50 acres will be put into condition.
The wood is being cut from It now, and
oats will be soved on the land.
Aside from the cows Mr.. Hazen has
other well-bred live stock, including 6S
swine, the strains being mostly Berk-
shire and Yorkshire. These animals
are fed with the waste products of the
creamery and are allowed to run at
will good deal of the time about the
premises, the exercise keeping them in
excellent condition. Last year 54 calves
and 80 hogs and pigs were summered
on the by-products of the dairy, with
pasture feed in addition for the swine.
His horses, % in number, are at present
mostly for work purposes, although be
has cheerful drivers for his own use
and several very promising colts.
Mr.. Hazen has SO many irons in the
fire that one would think he would not
be familiar with the details of all his
concerns, but he has everything at bis
fingers ends and can tell to fraction
of mill Just what any branch of hii
farm costs to run it, how productive
any of his acres may be, how expensive
was the manure on every foot of ground
the kind and amount used, the number
of men employed to till and the number
of hours they worked; he has down In
black and white the daily product oi
his cows, how much milk they give and
how much butter they make and what
it sells for and what the output was te
get the butter revenue. Every trifiing
detail he has on record, and knows al
any moment Just how he and his farm
and stock stand. He has farmed very
successfully. Why7 To begin with, ht
had plenty of courage and intelligent
discrimination. He saw dozen year,
ago that land covered with forest
could be cleared and made productive
He did as the early settlers did. The
ground was rich. The fertilizing pro
ducts of ages had accumulated layer
upon layer, and when the soil was called
upon to aid in supporting man it re
sponded quickly and splendidly. Thu
crops that were raised were bountiful
Land was added unto land, and vas
tract finally employed. Systematically
were accounts kept, that the ownel
might understand If his efforts wer'
remunerative and economically govern
himself. The idea of dairy farming
suggested itself. Fine bred stock wa
bought and superior herd built up
This was gradually DONE The butte
question was considered in all its bear
ings. Experiments In that held wer'
made. The motto was progress. Care
cleanliness and choiceness of stock char
acteriEed this dairy. Inc innovation
| Of yesterday and to-day were thorough,
tried and those features deemed benefi
lcial adopted and those alone. By prope